Fastener.



PATENTED MAY 22, was.

1 R. WHITE.

PASTENER.

APPLIUATIOR IILED mam 1904.

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FRANKLIN R. VVHLTE, OF WATERBURY:CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PLATT BROTHERS & (.OMPANY, CORPORATION OF CON NECTIUU'I.

.OF WATEBBURY, CONNECTICUT, A

PASTE HE R.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented my 99, 1906.

Application fllmi August 9. 1904. Burial I la. 930,083.

- vented certain new and useful Improvements m Fasteners, of which the following is a specifieetion.

M Y invention relates to the ball member 'of a. mll-and-socket fastener-sueh as are employed for use upon gloves, suspenders, &e.- the object being to reduce an article of this kind or character w ich shall be of few parts ehea. to manufacture and assemble, an whie maybe easily and readily attached to the arment.

' ith these and other ends in view my invention consists in eertain'novel features of construction, as will he. hereinafter fullydi scribed, and pointed out in the vlaim.

Inthe aceom' s ying drawin s, Figure 1 shows the blsn from which t e article is formed. Fig. Tie a sectional view after the blank has been drawn down into cup form. Fig. 3 is a similar View of the finished his toner. Fig. 4 is a view of the some slotted in order to render the same resilient. Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional views of modified forms thereof. Fig. 7 is a plan View showing hall distorted.

My im roved fastener is referehlv eonstructed 0m 11 single piece 0 metal, the first. step in the process hem 'the formation of a.

blank of'the shape as il ustrnt-edih Fig. 1-

that is, a blank consisting of the disk 7, having pointed teeth or prongs S radiating there from. B means of roper tools (not shown) th blank is drawn own into eup shape, us illustrated in Fig. 2 -thnt is, in somewhat the form of an eyelet 9, the lower edge of which is provided with the downwardlyprojecting teeth or prongs 10. The eyelet is then u set, producing the ball It, as illus-- trated in l i pointed test or rungs 13 depending from the latter. It wi l of course beunderstood that the ball 11 when so constructed is devoid of resiliency and is to be employed in.

..3, and the base-flange 12, the

l slot 14 being formed after the eyelet 9 has been u set and converted into the shape of the hal 11. In securing this fastener in place the pointed teeth or rongs l3 are oreed through the fabric until the shoulder or flan e 12 rests on the latter, the piereing ends 0 the teeth being clenched or upset on. the op osite side of the fabric, clamping the latter )etween said shoulder andnpsstends of the prongs.

While I prefer to form the fastener of a. $lfil piece of metal, as before described, ii wil be evident that the fastener may be mndr oi two or more partsns, for instance, in Fig. 5 I have illustrated the fastener as made in two pieces--na.mely, the hell proper, l5, and the teeth or pron s 16, depending from the disk or plate l.7-l,%6 lower edge 18 of the ball heing bent or curled around the shoulder 19, formed at the junction of the teeth 16 and disk 17. Again, in Fig. 6 l have illustrated the fastener as consisting of three parts--- namely, the ball pro er. 20, the teeth 2k, doendin' from the dis or plate .22, and n eelet 23, iii-ting over and around the ower ed e of said hellnnd under the shoulder i4, formed at thejunction of said teeth and disk-said collet being employed for holding the remain ing two parts in their proper relative posi tions; In each and oil of these instances 1: will be noticed, however, that the fastener is complete in itself and ready to be attached in plane without the aid of additional parts such, for instance, as the fnste:nin-e}'elet now usuallv employed for securing migohunlping the ball member to the fabric-the se piorring teeth or prongs provided for the purpose of seourinv the ball in place being made integral iv'th tlie hall proper or permanently secured thereto This feature mnterisil; re-

dunes the cost of the-article and also the goo ordinary way it making little or no (lillerl mice whether said ball I10 flattened at one 01* more vvlaces 0r pruvidvd (in the surface 01' impingin edgv with our 01 more onlnrgvnivnls, i sim y being nm-uwnrv to have tho impinglng nd ge distorted from the round 01' uirvular hhapc.

l laving fully described my illvvution, what I claim as new, and desire To secure by Let ters Patezit,is

The ball member of a ball-and-sockut l'asi tuner said member consisting of a ball proper provided with. a base-flange and having the permiuter Of said base [)l'UVlllPd with dcpvnd- 11] teeth or prongs, said head being upset, 1n

the direction of its axis and having um: or

more of its sides llaii'tvm-d.

Signed at \Vzrtvrlmry, in tho munty of New llaven and State Of Connor-limb. this 13th day ufJuly, A. l). 1904.

FRANKLIN 1i. Wlll'lifi.

Witnesses: JAY H. HART, LEWIS J. HART. 

